Children’s Cancer Center
White Hat Fund · About this organization
What you get
Help with electricity, rent, mortgage, car payments, insurance, and other nonmedical bills. The amount isn't published. Ask.
How to start
Your oncology social worker arranges the White Hat Fund referral. Gather your bills and complete the paperwork requested by program staff.
Good to know
- Your child must be in active cancer treatment.
The details, as published
Children’s Cancer Center’s White Hat Fund helps Greater Tampa Bay families pay essential nonmedical bills such as electricity, mortgage or rent, car payments, and insurance. A child with B-ALL can qualify when the child is on active cancer treatment and the family is connected to the organization’s Greater Tampa Bay service area. A social worker must refer the family, and the official site directs applicants to program staff for the current process; age limits, income rules, award caps, payment method, and present fund availability are not published.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
White Hat Fund — household bills and cash assistance
Children’s Cancer Center’s White Hat Fund helps Greater Tampa Bay families pay essential nonmedical bills such as electricity, mortgage or rent, car payments, and insurance. A child with B-ALL can qualify when the child is on active cancer treatment and the family is connected to the organization’s Greater Tampa Bay service area. A social worker must refer the family, and the official site directs applicants to program staff for the current process; age limits, income rules, award caps, payment method, and present fund availability are not published.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Car payments
- Electric bills
- Insurance
- Mortgage payments
- Rent
- The official program page does not publish an award amount or cap.
Medical And Insurance Costs
White Hat Fund — medical and insurance costs
Children’s Cancer Center’s White Hat Fund helps Greater Tampa Bay families pay essential nonmedical bills such as electricity, mortgage or rent, car payments, and insurance. A child with B-ALL can qualify when the child is on active cancer treatment and the family is connected to the organization’s Greater Tampa Bay service area. A social worker must refer the family, and the official site directs applicants to program staff for the current process; age limits, income rules, award caps, payment method, and present fund availability are not published.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Car payments
- Electric bills
- Insurance
- Mortgage payments
- Rent
- The official program page does not publish an award amount or cap.
Travel And Transportation
White Hat Fund — travel and transportation
Children’s Cancer Center’s White Hat Fund helps Greater Tampa Bay families pay essential nonmedical bills such as electricity, mortgage or rent, car payments, and insurance. A child with B-ALL can qualify when the child is on active cancer treatment and the family is connected to the organization’s Greater Tampa Bay service area. A social worker must refer the family, and the official site directs applicants to program staff for the current process; age limits, income rules, award caps, payment method, and present fund availability are not published.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Car payments
- Electric bills
- Insurance
- Mortgage payments
- Rent
- The official program page does not publish an award amount or cap.
Why this may help
Medical And Insurance Costs: Insurance payments are included among the nonmedical bills; ask which insurance costs count.
Travel And Transportation: Car payments can be covered alongside rent and other household bills.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The fund serves parents of a child on active treatment for cancer, which includes pediatric B-ALL.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
- The official White Hat Fund page uses the term child but does not publish a numeric age limit.
Treatment status
Active Treatment
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- A social worker referral is required.
Financial need is required.
- The official page does not publish an income threshold or required income documents.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: Programs serve pediatric-oncology families connected to Greater Tampa Bay; confirm the exact local or hospital boundary..
- Programs serve pediatric-oncology families connected to Greater Tampa Bay; confirm the exact local or hospital boundary.
- The organization states that it serves children and families diagnosed with pediatric cancer in the Greater Tampa Bay Area.
Where your child is treated
Treatment must be connected to: The organization describes itself as freestanding and serving eligible local families regardless of treatment hospital..
- The organization describes itself as freestanding and serving eligible local families regardless of treatment hospital.
How to get started
Does a social worker or care team need to start it? Yes. Ask your child’s social worker or care team to begin the request.
Who can start: Social Worker
- Ask the child's oncology social worker for a White Hat Fund referral.
- Confirm that the child is on active cancer treatment and the family is within the Greater Tampa Bay service area.
- Submit the information and bills requested by the organization after current requirements are confirmed.
- The social worker or family contacts the named Children's Cancer Center program staff member for the current referral and documentation process.
Ways to apply or ask
- Hospital Workflow · Open form or page · 813-367-5437 ext. 2 · snelson@childrenscancercenter.org — The official program page requires a social-worker referral and directs inquiries to the Director of Program and Family Services.
- Online Portal · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
- Other documents requested by Children's Cancer Center for the current essential bill
- Social-worker referral
- The official page does not publish whether assistance is paid to the family, reimbursed, or paid directly to a creditor.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Call To Confirm |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Call First |
| Last checked | Aug 22, 2026 |
- Current fund balance or award capacity is not published.
- The official 2026 site presents the White Hat Fund as an active program and provides a current referral contact.
- Contact the organization for the current referral process.
- No public review timetable is stated.
Limitations and things to confirm
- A social-worker referral is required.
- The child must be on active cancer treatment.
- The official site does not publish a numeric age limit, income rule, award cap, repeat-award rule, payment method, detailed documents, or current funding capacity.
- The program is limited to the Greater Tampa Bay service area.
- Is the White Hat Fund presently accepting and funding every otherwise eligible referral?
- What numeric age limit, income rule, documentation list, award cap, repeat-award rule, and payment method currently apply?
- Which counties or hospitals define the current Greater Tampa Bay service boundary?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 22, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Learn About the CCC · checked Aug 22, 2026
- White Hat Fund · checked Aug 22, 2026